She will Rise…
A poignant love poem, by Rajshree, exclusively for Different Truths. She will rise from the ashes from the faded colours of the desert flowers She will be back this...
Serenity
A poignant poem about nature, by Sangeeta, exclusively for Different Truths. Watch the cruising ducks in the brimming Lake Ontario The serenity, they exude, is stunning Like an epitome...
Ganga of the Seven Seas
An evocative poem by Niharika, about travelling across seven seas to a distant land, and Ganga, exclusively for Different Truths. The seven seas that carried me and brought me here are getting...
A Palace in the Desert
Dr. Roopali walks down the memory lane and recollects life of an army brat in a desert. A book extract exclusively for Different Truths. One day, after six months...
Dislocation
An evocative poem by Poonam, where physical pain transcends into the agonising pain of a refugee, exclusively for Different Truths. During childhood, On one of the vacations To my...
To ‘Feel’ my Words is to Know Me
Here’s an autobiographical prose poem, by Christine, exclusively for Different Truths. Did that thought linger in the wondrous imagination of that storyteller extraordinaire, Hans Christian Andersen? I think so. ...
Carnage
A dark poem about sinister childhood memories, by Gopal, exclusively for Different Truths Today I summon all those sinister, childhood shadows inside my dark room, my long memory laboratories,...
And Then This Shraadh
An evocative poem by Dr. Roopali about Pitrapaksha, when we pray, cook, and feed our ancestors, the patriarch’s ghosts that visit us, every year. The women-ghost perhaps are still...
Missing Link
Sujata tells us an intriguing story about Mahadev, Radha and their daughter, Pushpa. What was the missing link in the family? Will Mahadev ever know what had snapped? An...
Puri Priest Robbed, Executions in Afghanistan, World Rhino Day, Ashoka Pillar
Shail looks at this week’s news in her column. A Puri priest was robbed by a Facebook friend, executions have returned to Taliban ruled Afghanistan, to raise awareness and...